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Then and now: Revisiting nutrient export in agricultural watersheds within southern Ontario's lower Great Lakes basin

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JOURNAL OF GREAT LAKES RESEARCH
卷 47, 期 6, 页码 1689-1701

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ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jglr.2021.08.010

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Agricultural watersheds; Stream nutrient export; Runoff; Nonpoint source nutrients; Nutrient management; MWNS

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  1. Canada-Ontario Agreement, through the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks (OMECP) [1504]
  2. Ryerson University

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The research found that the importance of nonpoint source nutrient export has increased in agricultural watersheds in southern Ontario since the mid-1970s, emphasizing the need for targeted best management practices specific to the fall and winter seasons.
An enhanced understanding of nonpoint source (NPS) nutrient export to the lower Great Lakes is needed to inform land use and land management decisions within southern Ontario. However, this understanding is limited by a lack of long-term, temporally-intensive monitoring. To address this knowledge gap, we revisit six agriculturally-dominated subwatersheds in southern Ontario, which were intensively studied during the mid-1970s, to assess changes in hydrology and NPS nutrient contributions. We compared 1975-1977 to 2016-2018 stream runoff, nutrient export (kg/day center dot km2), and flow-weighted mean concentrations (FWMCs) of total phosphorus (TP), total dissolved phosphorus (TDP), total nitrogen (TN), nitrates (NO3-+NO2-) and Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen (TKN). Relative to the 1970s, runoff increased at three of six watersheds (by -20-35%) while TP and TDP export increased at five watersheds (by -50-125%). The increases in TP and TDP FWMCs were lower relative to phosphorus export changes at the three watersheds with increased runoff, suggesting that hydrology is an important driver of phosphorus export at these sites. Interestingly, export of TN and nitrates increased while TKN export decreased at most watersheds. We further note a shift in the timing of nutrient export at most sites, with -40-70% of export now occurring during the winter and fall seasons whereas -40-85% of past export occurred during spring and summer. These findings support an enhanced importance of non-growing season nutrient export from agricultural watersheds since the mid-1970s and stresses the need for targeted best management practices specific to the fall and winter seasons. (c) 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of International Association for Great Lakes Research. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

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